So I built a new computer for my parents as a b-day gift. I'm also giving them my monitor as with it being larger, should be easier for them to read things. Anyhow, I'm gonna' be rocking their smaller Dell 20.1" for a bit but want to upgrade to a 27" within a month.

So just looking for some feed back. My price range is preferrably $200 - $300, at the upper limit being $400 but I would really prefer not spend that much.

What I'm looking for is an LED 27" monitor with emphasis on build quality over image quality- I don't want dead pixels appearing within a year of owning it or something else failing. I don't do much in the way of video or photo editing (may down the road but not too concerned about it). I mostly play video games and watch movies, occasionally doing some photo or video editing but it's far from the primary use of my computer. Prefer to only spend between $200 and $300, $400 only if it's absolutely necessary.

That's LED and IPS- holy flippin' cow! I expected something like that to run nearing $1k! Same size and same resolution as my previous HP monitor while consuming half the power, taking up less space, and likely producing a far superior image... man I'm tempted to buy it now but I'd have to dip into my savings.

DON'T. WANT. TO. WAIT.

Thanks guys, think I've made up my mind. Didn't take nearly as long as I expected it to.

I'm not a video buff by any means and though this may not compare favorably to today's high-end screens, it'll be much better than my previous HP Monitor and much better than the monitor I'm using now. And it's within my price range.

slaWter is write but Redeemed can't afford what slaWter is so right about so Redeemed will make the right choice based of his wallet to technology ratio cost analysis algorithm. <- I did that for slaWter.